They indeed did a lot to shape our culture during this very small period. Smarter minds than I will certainly go deeper as the years go on. Also, why are these movies so huge, but still, no one reads the comic books?
Glad to see love for underrated The Incredible Hulk. This is the best cinematic version of Hulk. I’ll take sad, world weary shaggy haired Hulk over dumb comedic Hulk I guess. I know I’m in a small, small camp on this one.
I second your Watchmen take but man if Snyder did get it and chose some less on the nose needle drops it could have been some Kubrickian like masterpiece because visually it’s excellent and that fact that it even exists is just wild and could only have happened when it did. I don’t even mind that they left out the giant squid at the end.
Interested in where you would rank The Batman among the Batman catalog.
John Travolta as the main villain in The Punisher is a human bank owner in Tampa, FL. Amazing.
I’ll always really appreciate this one just for the small scale and spaghetti western influence even though that aerial shot of all the exploding cars making out the punisher skull at the end is pure garbage. And Tom Jane is great in this.
I can’t decide if Guardians 3 is the worst of that trilogy but I do know that Rocket and his friends’ flashbacks absolutely broke me and I respect the overall darkness of that one. These are the best movies in the MCU.
Spider-Man No Way Home’s middle aged Spider-Man hit me harder than expected. I was a freshman in college when the first Spider-Man came out and I saw it 4 times in the theater. I just blown away by it and I was also discovering Evil Dead at the time. Just seeing a couple Spidermen around my age bonding over their shared back problems and strained tendons just resonated.
Agreed with most of this. Though "sad, world weary" Hulk still delivers some serious ass whuppins in that movie. Have you seen the substantial deleted sequences from The Incredible Hulk from the DVD? Allegedly that's the Edward Norton-written material, and it's all pretty interesting. Doc Samson actually gets something to do.
He does deliver in that sure. I actually rewatched a clip of that final battle with Abomination after reading your post. That moment half way through the fight where Hulk is going to have to keep fighting and just had a look of being over it but continuing to fight anyway is great.
I have that dvd but I did not know about the additional footage. Will definitely check it out. Thanks!
I think with The Batman I liked it quite a bit but came away appreciating Patttinson’s Bruce Wayne/Batman more in a way that you mentioned than anything. Is it on the same tier as Batman 89, Returns, or The Dark Knight? Maybe not, but a young Batman who probably listens to Clan of Xymox doing real detective work in David Fincher’s Gotham is still pretty fun. I’ll take it.
Wow! Seeing all these movies listed out in one place simultaneously made me realize I’ve seen too many and somehow not enough of them.
They indeed did a lot to shape our culture during this very small period. Smarter minds than I will certainly go deeper as the years go on. Also, why are these movies so huge, but still, no one reads the comic books?
Glad to see love for underrated The Incredible Hulk. This is the best cinematic version of Hulk. I’ll take sad, world weary shaggy haired Hulk over dumb comedic Hulk I guess. I know I’m in a small, small camp on this one.
I second your Watchmen take but man if Snyder did get it and chose some less on the nose needle drops it could have been some Kubrickian like masterpiece because visually it’s excellent and that fact that it even exists is just wild and could only have happened when it did. I don’t even mind that they left out the giant squid at the end.
Interested in where you would rank The Batman among the Batman catalog.
John Travolta as the main villain in The Punisher is a human bank owner in Tampa, FL. Amazing.
I’ll always really appreciate this one just for the small scale and spaghetti western influence even though that aerial shot of all the exploding cars making out the punisher skull at the end is pure garbage. And Tom Jane is great in this.
I can’t decide if Guardians 3 is the worst of that trilogy but I do know that Rocket and his friends’ flashbacks absolutely broke me and I respect the overall darkness of that one. These are the best movies in the MCU.
Spider-Man No Way Home’s middle aged Spider-Man hit me harder than expected. I was a freshman in college when the first Spider-Man came out and I saw it 4 times in the theater. I just blown away by it and I was also discovering Evil Dead at the time. Just seeing a couple Spidermen around my age bonding over their shared back problems and strained tendons just resonated.
Agreed with most of this. Though "sad, world weary" Hulk still delivers some serious ass whuppins in that movie. Have you seen the substantial deleted sequences from The Incredible Hulk from the DVD? Allegedly that's the Edward Norton-written material, and it's all pretty interesting. Doc Samson actually gets something to do.
I'm still kind of sitting with "The Batman".
He does deliver in that sure. I actually rewatched a clip of that final battle with Abomination after reading your post. That moment half way through the fight where Hulk is going to have to keep fighting and just had a look of being over it but continuing to fight anyway is great.
I have that dvd but I did not know about the additional footage. Will definitely check it out. Thanks!
I think with The Batman I liked it quite a bit but came away appreciating Patttinson’s Bruce Wayne/Batman more in a way that you mentioned than anything. Is it on the same tier as Batman 89, Returns, or The Dark Knight? Maybe not, but a young Batman who probably listens to Clan of Xymox doing real detective work in David Fincher’s Gotham is still pretty fun. I’ll take it.
And they finally for the suit right.